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Hey Dolls!

Hello Dears,

Tracking is going well, we have about a week left in this studio and are using the time wisely by cracking down. I can imagine that when we leave here we will we disheveled and will have developed permanent bags underneath our eyes. Bed time has usually been 4am for some of us 5am and some of us have pulled all nighters and become totally delusional. But we put it on ourselves and chose to just press on and do things rather than sleep ha ha. Scary thing, my Mum is staying with us for a couple of days and the first thing she said to me when she walked in the house was, "Amandah does this house have a spirit in it?" - I knew this place was haunted. Anyway the day before we were talking to Gayle the lady that looks after the place and the office during the weekdays and she was saying that there is a milkmaid from many years ago that lives here and people that have stayed here and filled out the customer forms have reported her as well. Argh! Now you can imagine we are all freaking out, especially me and I won't dare to walk alone at night. My fears have been confirmed.

Overall it has been a good week but to be perfectly honest, the past couple of few days have left a strange feeling in the air for me, I still can't believe that Michael Jackson died, it's so weird. I know most of you are probably "over" hearing about it but if you are uneducated about the importance of Michael Jackson then start learning. And I don't mean that in a condescending way at all. It's never too late to learn about Michael Jackson and discover his music. But if you don't know anything about him yet have the audacity to make fucked up jokes and stupid comments about him, that is something to think about. I only hope that from this, people that didn't know so much about Michael Jackson start to discover him. I'm not claiming to be an MJ expert but I do love his music and respect what he did. If you are "over" hearing about it you'd better get used to it because people are going to go on and on and on about this for months, that is something that is just going to happen, the tributes are going to start pouring in and there is nothing anyone can do about it.

Moving on to happier news I guess :) The album is going better than I had imagined. Taking the time to get the right sounds, not rushing. Timmy is editing and comping drums so that I can track to them, I bet he feels like shit, probably hasn't slept for a couple of days, but it's all worth it. It's good that this house has three houses on the property we have a station for each house. The cabin is the Timmy's drum editing/comping room, then we have the bottom house which is where we have set up the studio stuff to record everything, then the top house where we chill out and sleep and stuff. We also discovered that what we thought was a "Rat Party" was actually a family of "Micro-Bats" which is exactly what they are. Tiny, tiny bats and they are SO cute. I feel better knowing that it isn't rat's squeaking and scratching in the roof and it's little cute bats. Have also made it halfway through the tracking process, only 4 songs left to track and then doing bits and pieces over the top. Very excite.

Also for my birthday, Justin bought me a purple Hannah Montana guitar amp. Amazing right? We were searching for a DI on ebay and there were 10 watt guitar amps going for sale. They were Hannah Montana amps and I was like "Oh how awesome would that be if you have a wall of Hannah Montana amps on stage." Anyway today a package came for me and I opened it and it was a purple Hannah Montana amp, it is a Prince purple and has a woman on the side of it. Totally amazing, funny thing is that the clean tone on the amp actually sounds good. Everyone that works at this place is incredible. Such a nice family of people here and very pleasant to be around, which is the best atmosphere to have. I have to press on tracking and getting all edits from Timmy. I shall speak to you all soon!
Much love.

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